Security News > 2020 > February > Facebook asks to be regulated kinda like a newspaper, kinda like telco
Facebook gave up trying to hide behind that one long ago, somewhere amongst the outrage sparked by extremist content, fake news and misleading political advertising.
During a Q&A session at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook isn't the passive set of telco pipes he once insisted it was, but nor is it like a regular media outlet that produces news.
As the internet giants - Facebook, Twitter and Google - come under increasing pressure to get better at keeping groups and governments from using their platforms to spread disinformation, Zuckerberg claims that Facebook is strenuously tackling the problem, having employed a veritable army of 35,000 people to review online content and implement security measures.
Nearly a year ago, Facebook put out a call for new internet regulation in four areas: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability.
On Monday, Facebook published a whitepaper describing its recommendations for future regulation, including more accountability from companies that do content moderation, which, it argues, will be a strong incentive for firms to be more responsible.